Sundance winner ‘Against The Tide’ to compete among 14 features in the South Asia Competition at Jio MAMI 2023

After winning a special Jury prize in Vérité Filmmaking at Sundance Film Festival 2023, National Award-winning filmmaker Sarvnik Kaur’s internationally acclaimed documentary feature Against The Tide is making its South Asian premiere at Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2023. Against The Tide is the only documentary selected among 14 features in the South Asia Competition section 

The film which premiered in World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance has won eight awards including UN Perception Change Award at Visions du Réel 2023, Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Competition at Seattle IFF 2023, Sustainable Future Award at Sydney IFF 2023 and Best Feature Award at Ice Docs 2023. It recently won Best Documentary at International South Asian Film Festival Canada and is also nominated for Asian Pacific Screen Award (APSA) for Best Documentary Feature.

The 97-minute film in Koli, Marathi, Hindi language is about Two friends, both indigenous Koli Fishermen in Mumbai, who are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families.

Excited about the India Premiere of Against The Tide, the National-Award winning filmmaker Sarvnik Kaur says, “I am absolutely thrilled to begin our film’s journey in India with Mumbai: the inspiration, setting and very reason for why it came into existence. There is a sense of homecoming, and I am really excited to show the film to my city and its people. We cannot wait to celebrate this moment with Ganesh, Rakesh and their families gathered together.” 

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The producer Koval Bhatia adds, “We always wanted to launch our film domestically starting with Mumbai, and it’s finally happening. We cannot wait to find out how audiences here respond to the film, and we hope to change minds and hearts, both about the issues in our film and also towards documentaries!”

The DOP of the film is Ashok Meena, Atanas Georgiev (Honeyland) and Blagoja Nedelkovki are the editors and Moinak Bose is the sound designer. Igor Vasilev has done the music. 

The film produced by Snooker Club Films and A Little Anarky Films in co-production with Les Films de l’Œil Sauvage with the support of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Doc Society Climate Story Fund, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Catapult Film Fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures, the Sundance Institute, SFFILM, AlterCine Foundation, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in collaboration with the CNC, Procirep Angoa.